How to hold your temper 

Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence. (Most importantly the last sentence)

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.

His Father gave him a bag of nails

and told him that every time he lost his

temper, he must hammer a nail into the back 
of the fence.

The first day the boy had 
driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next 
few weeks, as he learned to control his
anger, the number of nails hammered daily 

gradually dwindled down. He discovered 
it was easier to hold his temper than to 

drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't

lose his temper at all. He told his father

about it and the father suggested that the

boy now pull out one nail for each day that he

able to tell his father that all the nails 
were gone. The father took his son by the

hand and led him to the fence. He said, 'You

have done well, my son, but look at the

holes in the fence. The fence will never be

the same. When you say things in anger,

they leave a scar just like this one. You can put

a knife in a man and draw it out.

It won't matter how many times you say 'I'm

sorry', the wound is still there. A verbal

wound is as bad as a physical one.

Please forgive me if I have ever left a hole.